The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE has 2304 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.56 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 7.19 TFLOPS.
The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE is equipped with a graphics chip of the GCN 4 architecture, which has 36 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is based on the Pascal architecture and is equipped with 15 execution units.
Memory
Memory
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Memory Size
8 GB
8 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
2.100 GHz
2.002 GHz
Memory Speed
8.4 Gbps
8.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
269 GB/s
256 GB/s
Memory Interface
256 bit
256 bit
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The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.100 GHz clocks.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 has a 8 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.002GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Base Clock
1.469 GHz
1.506 GHz
Boost Clock
1.560 GHz
1.683 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE has a turbo clock of 1.560 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is 1.683 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
TDP
225 W
150 W
Tjunction max
98 °C
94 °C
PCIe-Power
1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin
1 x 8-Pin
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The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE has 1 x 6-Pin, 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 98 °C.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 94 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Fan-Type
Axial
Radial
Fan 1
2 x 95 mm
1 x 70 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
0 dB
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE are cooled with a Air cooling.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Max. Displays
4
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
2x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0b
DisplayPort
2x DP 1.4
3x DP 1.4
DVI
1
1
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The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Max. resolution
7680x4320
7680x4320
DirectX
12
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
Yes
LED
Non addressable LED
No LED lighting
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The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
h264
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode
VP8
Decode
Decode
VP9
Decode
Decode
AV1
No
No
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
Length
260 mm
267 mm
Height
135 mm
111 mm
Width
43 mm
38 mm
Width (Slots)
3 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The Sapphire NITRO+ RX 590 8G G5 SE is 43 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is 43 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.
The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.
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